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Article: First Beam for Large Hadron Collider.
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- September 10, 2008
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Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- An international collaboration of scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) invested a total $531 million in the construction of the accelerator and its detectors, which scientists believe could help unlock extraordinary discoveries about the nature of the physical universe.
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